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Emiko Miyashita (Japanese: 宮下惠美子; born September 6, 1954, Fukushima, Japan), haiku poet writing in Japanese and English. She was trained by Akito Arima in his haiku group Ten’i (天為, Providence) for 28 years and is now a dōjin for the Shin (晨, Dawn) group. She serves as a councilor of the Haiku International Association, and a vice chair of the English-Speaking Union of Japan, as well as a director of the JAL Foundation in charge of the World Children’s Haiku Contest. In 2005 she launched a column on the HIA web page dealing with haiku activities outside of Japan, and since 2021 she has hosted the monthly Lighthouse Poetry Reading on Zoom. She began a haiku contest for ESUJ in 2018 and serves as its judge. She is a member of Haiku Canada and a dōjin for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society. Miyashita is the author of one haiku collection in Japanese (2002) and one in English (2004), edited The New Pond: An English-language Haiku Anthology (2002), and has cotranslated collections of haiku by Masajo Suzuki (2000), Akito Arima (2002), Yoshiko Yoshino (2002), and Taneda Santōka (2006) as well as several anthologies. She currently lives in Kawasaki.
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